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Following the birth of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first child on Monday, and a press conference to introduce their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor to the world yesterday, Danny shared a post on social media.

He shared a black and white picture of a well-dressed man and woman holding hands with a monkey, who was also dressed in a suit, with his 504,000 Twitter followers.

The former radio star captioned the image: “Royal baby leaves hospital."

Following a backlash from outraged users, Danny deleted the post and apologised for his actions.

He wrote: “Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased. Soon as those good enough to point out it's possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that's it. Now stand by for sweary football tweets.”

Earlier this morning, the BBC confirmed the news of his firing in a statement which read: “This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody. Danny’s a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us.”

Danny Baker, 61, pictured for first time since he was fired by BBC for royal baby tweet (Image: Tim Merry)

Danny Baker was pictured for the first time today following the news that he has been sacked (Image: Tim Merry)

Danny Baker emerged from his house today to talk to waiting journalists (Image: Tim Merry)